{"product_id":"as-the-crow-flies-paperback-2","title":"as the crow flies - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"as the crow flies\" is a collection of poems about the passage of time toward one's death and the continuing, comforting connections with life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems reflect individual events encountered throughout one's lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI sometimes feel longing, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea memory of flesh, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea feeling\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof moss-moist carpeted ground\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebeneath towering conifers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand the musty pepper flavor, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eorange moist flesh, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof the chanterelle, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efemale in structure\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efunnels of blunt gills forming\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003evase-like open mouths.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd I long to return to a moment past, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto that summer day, to that sense of connection, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand to stay in that inhaled breath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand to lay back down, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand begin my slow-release\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einto earth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egifting in my changing body\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhat the mushrooms will transform\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378726699231,"sku":"9798256007270","price":10.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/J_ht8i_gUI9798256007270.webp?v=1789261595","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/as-the-crow-flies-paperback-2","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}